Professional Documents
Culture Documents
content, all these have an impact on your construction project. If the soil isnt tested
correctly then its possible to have complications when you start with the building phase.
It is required to submit an updated professional tax receipt and PRC license of all the
professionals who are involved in the application forms and plans, this is to ensure that
their licenses are still valid, for the liability of the engineer/ architect to a structure.
Next activity is conducted at the City Hall for the applicant to receive the Zoning
Compliance Certificate, the applicant must bring with him/her the plans, bill of
materials/cost estimate, building specifications. All of these will be speculated for the
analysis of the zoning, to classify whether the zones could be used for residential or
commercial buildings and from here you can specify the limitations when constructing a
particular building and its exemptions, considering the setbacks and fire walls. We can
differentiate the exemptions of a commercial building to a residential building with the
use of setbacks and firewalls a given example are the buildings found along session road,
we can see that the buildings have maximized their building area by using fire walls this
is an acceptable exemption.
The next activity is the Fire Safety Evaluation Clearance from the Fire department, they
are in charge of evaluating the plans and specifications submitted by the applicant to
ensure that they conform to the fire safety and control requirements of the fire code.
Clearance from other government agencies is required to ensure that the construction
follows the standards and requirements of the zoning ordinances. For example, if the
property is located alongside national road you must have a clearance form DPWH, if the
property is located alongside the airport you must have a clearance from the Aviation
Transportation Office, if the property is located near mansion house then a clearance from
the Presidential Security Group and etc.,
A mandatory procedure is ensuring a Certificate of construction safety health program
from Dole. This is for the protection of each and every workers against the dangers of
injury, sickness, or death through safe and healthful working conditions, thereby assuring
the conservation of valuable manpower resources and the prevention of loss or damage to
lives and properties, consistent with national development of every worker as a complete
human being.
Once completed, the Building and Architecture Office will receive the application of
permit/s and the pre evaluation of the plans, the process begins with the inspection of the
site
Now, all of these processes should be in the Construction logbook, which consists of the
day to day activities during the construction, this matters when you apply for the
occupancy permit to be checked by the engineers.